Indiana State News Briefs from March 18
A week in review reports 813 bills introduced in the General Assembly with 82 enacting law. Highlights include failed measures on primary elections and anti influence, hospital funding, licensing for engineers, liquor gate controls, and child labor limits. Notable items from towns describe a world’s smallest baby, gas or oil prospects, a temperance revival in Vincennes, a lightning rod swindle in Tippecanoe, odd fish sightings at Rockport, and various county updates across Dubois, Lafayette, Evansville, and Madison.
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Inpranarous, Inc
Senate
House
Local tragedies report cannibal island hair mishap and fire death
Miss Laura Lamson of Fowler injured severely when a hot curling iron slipped while styling hair in an island fashion. Mrs. Wattie Young of Spencer county burned to death after clothes ignited from a grate while dusting the mantel. The column notes a sulfur shower as a referenced detail.
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Laura Lamson
Fowler
Wattie Young
Spencer County
Over the River and Local Political Shifts
The Security Live Stock Insurance Company of Bloomington decides to wind up amid about 12 000 dollars in unpaid losses and unknown assets, with 38 000 000 dollars of outstanding stock risks. In Galesburg colored voters form an independent club with 200 votes, unsettling Republican politicking. A Morgan county hunt nets three foxes after 2300 men covered a 50 mile circle. Joliet’s John Watkins, late educator of Chicago’s first public school, is noted. Quincy’s electric light station fails, plunging the city into darkness. Adams county poor-house lists 15 old soldiers. Carmi votes on whisky legality.
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Security Live Stock Insurance Company
Bloomington
Illinois
Indiana
Galesburg
Morgan County
John Watkins
Joliet
Chicago
Quincy
Adams County
Carmi
Indiana Patents Granted To Citizens In Past Week
The New Harmony Register lists Indiana citizens receiving patents: Alexander of Dartford City for a twisting tool. Barnum Indianapolis for a mosquito canopy. Brantigam Indianapolis for a fire escape. Burcham Mineral City for a ditch machine. Conant Kirkpatrick for a fanning mill. Farmer Richmond for a fence machine. Gore Waldron for a wire fence machine. Jacoby Goshen for a draft equalizer. Lewman Leatherwood for a horse rake. Livingston New Corner for a washing machine. Parker Eureka for a harrow. Thorn Vincennes for a gate. Chamberlain Goshen for a scrub brush. Graham Greencastle for a guide for edge molding machines. Lacey Rural for a cockle separator. Miller Slate for a wire stretcher. St. Clair Van Buren for a car brake. Tower South Bend for a sulky plow.
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D. C
Indiana
New Harmony Register
C. A. Snow & Co
U.S
Washington, D.C
C. C. Alexander
Dartford City
W. W. Barnum
Indianapolis
Brantigam
A. Burcham
Mineral City
J S. Conant
Kirkpatrick
JI. Farmer
Richmond
A. Jf. Gore
Waldron
Ll. H Jacoby
Goshen
J.T. Lewman
G. W. Livingston
New Corner
W. T. Parker
Eureka
Harrow
T. B. Thorn
Vincennes
Gate
C.F. Chamberlain
B. Graham
Greencastle
J. A. Lacey
A. S. Miller
A. A. St. Clair
van Buren
C. E. Tower
South Bend
Richer Than Gold A Georgia Madstone Story
Arvanta Georgia March 12 The death of a man in Banks county from a mad dog bite has revived interest in madstones. The best known is Mrs. Gibson's from Columbia county, dating back to 1743 when a stranger gave the stone to her husband. It allegedly cures blood poison and was used to treat a rattlesnake bite, with the patient recovering for decades. The stone traveled through Georgia, its fame growing as cases across the region were treated and reported, drawing crowds to Appling and surrounding communities.
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Arvanta
Banks County
Fairburn
L. W. Gibson
Columbia County
East Indies
North Carolina
Gibson
Bombay
Abe Lockhart
Stuck Green
Miss Williams
Mrs. Gibson
McGinty
Norwood
Washington Notes Briefs From D C March 16 1893
In circulation figures the mint reports 57,214,510 standard silver dollars from a total 255,471,637 and 128,290,392 in silver certificates. The treasury holds 75,966,745. Cholera spreads in South America, Congressmen linger in the capital, and Cleveland nears his 50th birthday. Minister to Liberia nominee C Hol Taylor is named. The national drill starts May 22 with 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers plus regalia and spectators filling the capital vicinity.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
State Department
South America
Cleveland
C. Hol. Taylor
Kansas City
Liberia
White House
Notable items from world press on people places and progress
A digest of diverse notes reports social trends and curiosities: green sea turtles at Cape Fear, Mose Gibson’s long mail run, coffin jokes, Mrs. Cleveland’s letters, postal hoards, prohibition and suffrage debates, crime statistics, John L. Sullivan’s diamond belt, West Virginia political shifts, tea consumption, tobacco age limits, salt of florid naming, and various industrial and cultural facts from 19th century America and Europe.
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N. C
Cape Fear River
Ft. Caswell
Mose Gibson
Washington
John Penzel
Jackson
Cleveland
Jeuness Miller
Paola
Kas
Great Britain
New York
Massachusetts
Maine
Illinois House of Representatives
John L. Sullivan
Boston
Charlestown
W. Va
West Virginia
Daniel B. Lucas
Denn
Camden
Dr Caartie and Kickapoo Troupe end engagement with grand ball
Dr Caartie and his troupe closed three week run with a grand ball for citizens. They left for Grayville yesterday and Dr Charlie is praised as fair and gentlemanly. His wife and child stay, with plans for occasional visits. Prize rings were awarded to Master Fred Collins and Harry Schnee's baby after a close finish.
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Charlie
Fred Collins
Harry Schnee
Thrall & Mumford's
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